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Another week. What is your favorite childhood food? That dish that takes you back to a happy childhood memory.

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The New York Times, a “newspaper” and “trusted media source” was out there downplaying the second assignation attempt on Trump.

They do such a good job of lying. Kamala should take lessons from them. They used air quotes to imply that the assignation attempt wasn’t a real thing.

Over on X, the number of people that claim that there was no assignation attempt because no shot was fired is batshit crazy.

I do love that Florida has decided to keep the investigation local and to hold on to their prisoner.
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Wednesday was a good day, sort of. I was able to shut down my K8S cluster.

The amount of grief this new fangled thing has given me cannot be overstated.

Bluntly, most of the issues could have been resolved by throwing more money at the problem. K8S does work for large infrastructure solutions. The sort of infrastructure where you have 10+ nodes and each node has 32+ GB of memory.

What does this mean for Troglodite? We are moving sideways to a different type of infrastructure. This is built on more VMs but smaller.


“The” debate happened. It was the first presidential debate I’ve watched in years. I had to tune it out about 15 minutes in, when the referees tackled Trump for the second time. I.e., did a fact check and reported Trump lied when he had not.

It was the three on one that I had hoped not to see.

The number of manipulative things that were done to make Trump look bad.

His microphone was louder. This makes him sound more aggressive.

They were keeping his microphone muted after Kamala stopped talking, he started talking into a dead mic. A second or so later, his mic goes live, but it makes it sound like he is talking over Kamala when he is not.

They asked him questions that were phrased in the negative, they asked her questions phrased in the positive.


The fallout on the debate was surprising. Immediately after the debate, there were all the cheerleaders claiming that Kamala won and talking about how bad Trump was. Many claiming that the fact checking proved that Trump does nothing but lie.

This filled my X feed. More leftist noise than I normally see in a month, all in that first 5 hours.

But, the discussion has morphed into “How bad was ABC? Can we give them a -5 on a scale of 1 to 10?”.

Not just on the right, but CNN is holding up the ABC debate as proof they aren’t leftist. When you lose CNN, you are really messing things up.


Social media, thank you to all of those that are following .

It is sad, I check the number of followers I have a few times a day, looking for those triple digit follows.


More federal judges are twisting the words of the Supreme Court to get the outcomes they want. Most of those are ending up in court, and losing. Even the Ninth Circus is putting up (temporary) wins for The People.

Have a fantastic weekend!

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This week has given me closure on several small projects, all working together to get the right results.

In the old days, each device on the Internet had its individual IP address, today, most devices share their IP address with thousands of other devices. Instead, entire locations hide behind a single IP address.

This is performed with the magic of Network Address Translation (NAT).

To make everything work, I had to have external DNS servers provide the address of a firewall that just happens to perform NAT as well.

That firewall had to be configured to forward allowed ports to a load balancer (HAProxy). Each port of interest being properly configured in the load balancer. The load balancer forwards the traffic to a reverse proxy (Traefik) running a docker swarm over a ceph file system.

Each service within the swarm must be configured within the swarm. The swarm just be configured for networking.

All of this is supposed to “just work”.

It is all working now. Not because it just works. The magic was to start inside a docker container, close to the service, verify that service, then move outward.

Along the way, the local DNS server had to provide overrides so that the firewall didn’t have to do hairpin configurations for each port.

For testing purposes, we had to set up an internal ACME server, which is working wonderfully.

The Vine of Liberty now lives on this new infrastructure. There are only a few more pieces to move, and I will be done with k8s.


My father passed on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. He joins my mother, who passed earlier this year.

Even though I am over 60, this is hitting me hard. My entire life, I have felt able to reach for my dreams, to risk so much because I knew my parents were there as a safety net.

It appears that my parents created a financial safety net for their grandchildren and children, we are working through the family trauma to make sure everything works out “right”.


We are still looking for somebody to do engagement farming on X/Twitter. If you are interested, please contact me.


It has taken me a while to realize that this is my site now. In the past, I left the politics to Miguel and J.Kb. I have decided to post a few more political articles.


Have a fantastic weekend!

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The blog has now been moved to a temporary server. I hope that it will be more stable. I have to move the citation server. Once that is moved, GFZ and Vine Of Liberty will be free of K8S.

I have a few other websites to move, but I am making great progress.

In the Supreme Court of Mass acutes, we had a Second Amendment win. They found that knives are arms under the plain text of the Second Amendment. As such, it was the government’s burden to show that the current regulation, a ban on switch-blade knives, was consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulations.

The state did not meet their burden, the law is facially unconstitutional.

There have been a few more wins at the district court level.

In many circuits, the district judges are applying Bruen faithfully. This led to a cascade of wins for the Second Amendment.

It is at the circuit court level where most of the clown show exists. The Fourth, Ninth, Seventh, and Second come to mind.

Answering the question of the fastest way from sheep to cap, socks or tunic. The answer is to knit them. It is but a short time to get from clean fleece to yarn suitable for knitting with.

The comments are of course open.

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The DNC held their convention this week. The level of hypocrisy exceeds even my expectation.

The left attacked Trump’s kids, Bush’s kids, Palin’s kids. It was always “OK”. Some idiots on the right pointed at Walz’s kid, and the left is having a meltdown over how evil Republicans are.

I don’t remember walls around the RNC. They have walls around the DNC and hotels where attendees are staying. Besides the business owners that boarded up their stores for the week because of “mostly peaceful riots”, there are businesses that are inside the DMZ where people can’t go without IDs. They are losing money.

The lies are never ending. Policies are still unstated. And Kamala promises to fix all the issues on day 1. Issues that she and the Muppet that is residing in the White House haven’t fixed in the last 3.5 years.

I’ve started to dig through some of the cases that have been going on. It has been hard as I’ve been in “learning mode” for the last two months, interrupted by trips home to see my father.

Dad is back in intensive care. My brother doesn’t think he will make it to Christmas. That will be hard.

Thank you to everybody who is still here. It is a bit disheartening to see how many people no longer visit regularly.

So again, thank you.

We are currently looking for somebody to social engagement on X. The auto post doesn’t work, and the share doesn’t seem to put the image or anything else interesting.

I think there are maybe 4 followers of @vineofliberty on X at this point.

If you are interested, please reach out to us at AWA@vineofliberty.com

If you were one of the regulars and are just stopping by, please leave a comment as to what caused you to leave. I know we aren’t Miguel nor J.Kb.

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Welcome to the weekend!

We’ve made it through another week.

I think the biggest thing I’ve heard to-date is simply this: We need to focus on the candidates for president, not their VPs.

JD Vance is a better candidate than Walz, by far. No matter how much of a scumbag Walz might be, we need to focus on policy.

Kamala has not given an interview in 27 days? She has failed as VP, we need the people to know that she will fail as president.

There have been a couple of wins for the 2nd over the last week. Things are starting to break free. I think that one of the most significant changes in the circuit courts has been the dissenting judges being willing to stand up and call out the rogue judges for stomping on The People.

I’m working on decommissioning my Kubernetes cluster. I’ve already torn down the local “test” version. The cost is too high for the benefits.

The number of “supporting” containers is ridiculous. Each container takes a bit of memory. These containers suck the memory from the host nodes, causing instability.

As an example, there are three containers that run constantly to handle SSL certificates. They are needed once every 90 days per certificate and once when a new certificate is needed. That’s a bit of resources for something that isn’t really needed constantly. There are 23 running as k8s command and control.

I’m moving back to old school stuff.

The comments are open, let us know your thoughts.

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Olympic “trans” controversy where we lost. The boxer in question isn’t trans. She might be cheating. But we lost because the facts are not in our favor.

We had a great opinion from an east coast federal judge. The gist? “I hate Bruen, I’ve worked hard to find something that would allow me to find for the state. I couldn’t. AR-15s in particular can’t be banned. This doesn’t apply to other ‘assault weapons’ nor does it apply to magazine bans.”

Rahimi is being used by the state as an “everything goes” but the courts aren’t really buying it unless they were already in the anti-gun camp.

Thanks again for my grammar checkers. I don’t take offense and I will continue to attempt to do better.

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This has been a week of Rants.

There are things happening on the legal front. I need to go read those cases and digest them.

Ally has been doing a fantastic job getting good articles out, with good engagement. Thank you, all.

For those giving me feedback on grammar, thank you. It is very helpful. I do have some tools that help, but they are not perfect.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

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Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

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Another week has gone by. The world is still here.

In an astonishing turn of events, the attempted assassination of Trump is no longer in the news. Instead, all the talk is about the Democrat’s selected, presidential nominee. Amazing.

X is all a tweet over how Joe’s appearance keeps changing. The one that made me go, “Hmmmm” was the one where the camera angles appear to show that Joe grew 3 to 5 inches while recovering from Covid.

I’ve been busy with a few different tasks, limiting the amount of time I have for research. I do have a couple of “personal” articles in progress, as well as two case articles.

Ally has stepped up to the plate and is putting out articles on the regular.

The store is coming, not this month, but soon enough.

It will offer items I manufacture or make, virtual products (to support the site), and Ally’s signed books.

We will be providing links to the unsigned books on Amazon, there are some contractual things in play.

For me, the biggest question of this week was, “Is Joe still alive?”

The comments are open, do you have a question for us? Do you have an idea for an article? Where do you stand on the “WTF is going on in the Dem party?”

Have a great weekend!